

1 price from Pets at Home
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- Some meat not named by animal
- Includes digest or flavouring
First ingredients: Chicken meal (27%), Wheat*, Corn*, Animal fats, Wheat middlings*… All ingredients
Ingredients match the maker’s own page- Meat
- 27%
- Protein, dry weight
- 31%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~42%
- kcal/100 g
- 375
Ingredients
Listed first: Chicken meal. 27% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 27%
- Plants 1%
- Other 0.2%
- No amount given 71.8%
Chicken meal (27%), Wheat*, Corn*, Animal fats, Wheat middlings*, Rice*, Dried animal protein, Soya meal, Dried beet pulp, Digest, Dried chicory root*1 (1%), Minerals, Fish oil, Dried carrot* (0.07%), Dried spinach* (0.07%), Dried parsley* (0.07%) *Natural ingredients, 1natural prebiotic
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
Additives
IU/kg: Vitamin A: 20000; Vitamin D3: 1100; Vitamin E: 95 mg/kg: Iron (II) sulphate monohydrate: (Fe: 83); Calcium iodate anhydrous: (I: 2.0); Copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate: (Cu: 9.2); Manganous sulphate monohydrate: (Mn: 6.2); Zinc sulphate monohydrate: (Zn: 110); Sodium selenite: (Se: 0.20) mg/kg: Ferrous sulphate monohydrate: (Fe: 93); Calcium iodate anhydrous: (I: 2.4); Cupric sulphate pentahydrate: (Cu: 10); Manganous sulphate monohydrate: (Mn: 7); Zinc sulphate monohydrate: (Zn: 130); Sodium selenite: (Se: 0.22); Antioxidants
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Chicken meal”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken meal (27%) | Named meat | 27% |
| Wheat* | Grain | Not given |
| Corn* | Grain | Not given |
| Animal fats | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Wheat middlings* | Grain | Not given |
| Rice* | Grain | Not given |
| Dried animal protein | Other | Not given |
| Soya meal | Other | Not given |
| Dried beet pulp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Digest | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Dried chicory root*1 (1%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 1% |
| Minerals | Other | Not given |
| Fish oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Dried carrot* (0.07%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 0.07% |
| Dried spinach* (0.07%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 0.07% |
| Dried parsley* (0.07%) *Natural ingredients | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 0.07% |
| 1natural prebiotic | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 31% and carbs about 42%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 28% | 31% |
| within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 14% | 16% |
| Carbohydrate | ~38% | ~42% |
| within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 2.5% | 2.8% |
| Ash | 7.5% | 8.3% |
| Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed | 10% | taken out |
Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the dry foods we rate.
Why it scores 27
The kind of meat scored best (5 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).
How much meat?
11.4 / 45 points- Meat on the label9.5 / 35 points
27% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.9 / 10 points
Protein is 31.1% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
5.9 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 42.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
5 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for digest or flavouring.
What kind of meat?
5 / 15 points- How the meat is listed5 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as meal and unnamed meal, which earns 42% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.
- Organ meat0 / 3 points
No organ meat named.
No ingredient deductions.
Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.
Against other dry foods
What the score means
One scale for every food: meat (45 points), starch (20), how it’s made (20) and kind of meat (15), minus points for a few listed ingredients. It rates the recipe, not your dog.
75 and over is excellent, 60 to 74 good, 45 to 59 fair and under 45 weak.
How we rate foods →Less starch in the bowl
Half and half by calories with Forthglade Puppy Chicken & Liver Wet Dog Food (scores 73): carbs fall from 42% to 23% by dry weight, and protein is about 37%.
Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.
Best wet foods →Ingredient notes
1 noted, no points taken: parsley. 25 flagged nothing.
- 1 noted
- 25 nothing flagged
- 1 not in our ingredient database yet
- ParsleyNoted, no points takenFeed material (vegetable)
Why it’s noted and sources
Only large amounts cause problems (sun sensitivity); the small amounts used in food aren't a concern.
25 ingredients with nothing flagged
Animal fats, antioxidants, beet pulp, carrot, chicken, chicory root extract, digest (rendered meat digest), fish oil, maize (corn), minerals, processed animal protein, rice, soya (soybean), spinach, tocopherols (vitamin E), wheat, wheat middlings
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: copper, vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Animal fats, antioxidants, beet pulp, carrot, chicken, chicory root extract, digest (rendered meat digest), fish oil, maize (corn), minerals, rice, soya (soybean), spinach, wheat
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Antioxidants, chicory root extract, digest (rendered meat digest), soya (soybean), spinach, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1490 (EUR-Lex)Manganese
- Directive 2002/32/EC Annex I (as amended) (EUR-Lex)Selenium
- EFSA J 2013;11(2):3100 doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3100Iodine
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Fieten 2016 Int J Mol Sci 17(2):196 doi:10.3390/ijms17020196Copper
- Reg (EU) 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials, Part C (legislation.gov.uk)Processed animal protein
- Reg (EU) 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials, Part C (legislation.gov.uk)Wheat middlings
- Regulation (EU) 2015/861 (EUR-Lex)Iodine
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Natural prebiotic
Not in our ingredient database yet, so no judgement either way.
Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide
Prices
One shop we track sells this: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 11% since 10 Aug.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pets at Home14kg · £31.49 up 11% since 10 Aug | 14kg | £31.49 | £2.25/kg | Visit |
Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 14kg | £31.49 | £2.25/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 14kg | £28.34 | £2.02/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 14kg | £28.34 | £2.02/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
2 dry foods score 14 to 20 points higher at the same price or less.

- Meat
- 57% this food 27%
- Carbs
- about 36% this food about 42%
- To feed
- 24% less per 1,000 kcal
+20 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 34% this food 27%
- Price
- about the same per kg
+14 pointsCompare
Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Matches the maker’s own page.
Checked against the maker. The ingredient list matches the one on the manufacturer’s own product page.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.
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